Workshop attended

The aim of the workshop was to develop the practical skills of researchers in South Africa with tools to compile burden of disease data and to model the cost-effectiveness of health interventions, from gathering the data, through developing appropriate models, to reporting the results including the sensitivity and uncertainty analysis.

The workshop was lead by well known international expert on Burden of Disease studies Prof Theo Vos from the University of Queensland in Australia and some of his colleagues. The content of the workshop was based on two postgraduate-level courses in the field of study at the University of Queensland. Lectures was filled with practical examples form various parts of the world while the exercises focused on South African data and typical South African disease studies.

Both participants from the Department of Economics are confident that their own research definitely benefit from the experience.